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SHECKYmag prediction comes true: Aspen over!

The Aspen Daily News is reporting that HBO is bugging out of Aspen.

After 13 years of laughs, the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival is taking its jokes and going home — or at least its going somewhere other than Aspen next year.

A spokeswoman for HBO confirmed the festival’s departure Thursday, citing the expense of doing business here and the dwindling number of hotel rooms.

Mind you, it’s always been too expensive for comedian and standup fans (and spunky internet magazines about standup), but, of course, when the St. Regis goes condo and the number of eye-poppingly expensive hotel rooms dwindles, well, it’s time to call it quits!

We called this one in February of ’05.

Perhaps the only thing keeping it in nosebleed country was Chris Albrecht.

Thanks to sharp-eyed reader Steve Krause!